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This 47-year-old patient had longstanding jaundice and ascites consequent to biopsy-proven hepatic cirrhosis.

114. gigantic cutaneous arterial spiders

Although arterial spiders vary in size and shape, most are less than 1 to 2 cm in greatest diameter. In the patient shown,however, several spiders on his abdomen were unusually large, the largest being 7x14 cm.

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Source:  OpenStax, Images of memorable cases: 50 years at the bedside. OpenStax CNX. Dec 08, 2008 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10449/1.7
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